Domas (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° S, 14.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Purple Shale Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. R. M. Cocks. 1968. Some strophomenacean brachiopods from the British Lower Silurian. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), London, Geology 15:283-324 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164202: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.11.2014

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena purpurea n. sp. Cocks 1968